Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , The Media and the Environment
As I’ve noted, the last couple of weeks have been good ones for the polar bear, with the Obama Administration proposing both the designation of over 200,000 square miles of critical habitat the bear and increased international restrictions on polar...continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Arguably, one the most successful international environmental agreements, at least when it comes to wildlife, is the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species or “CITES” (pronounced “cy-tees”). CITES is designed to control international commercial trade in endangered species,...continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Those of you following NRDC’s battle to prevent the termination of federal protections for the Northern Rocky Mountains population of gray wolves may have recently read about the Idaho Fish and Game Commission, which just set a quota for wolf...continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
I just came across this opinion piece touting the benefits of big-game hunting on wildlife conservation generally, and African elephants in particular. The authors write: It’s counterintuitive, of course, but an elephant well shot is a species well protected. Simply...continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
A new study in the journal Ecology, continues to confirm the remarkable effect that wolves are having on the greater Yellowstone ecosystem. Scientists have long known that wolves kill or chase off coyotes whenever they encounter them, and the effect...continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
I normally don't respond to every argument by folks who oppose protecting the polar bear under the Endangered Species Act because, well, it's just not worth the bother. But this bit of idiocy in the Miami Herald just cries out...continued→
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
As I've written about here at Switchboard on several occasions, far and away the biggest threat to polar bears is from climate change and its effect on the Arctic sea-ice on which they depend. But whenever a species is threatened...continued→
